Second Annual Report of the Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference

Second annual of the Utah State Farmers' Institutes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. Annuals of Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference recorded the season's institute work, which contains leading papers and discussions presented at the institute meeting of the State. Freely distributed to farmers following each session. Topics include : Purpose and scope of the Farmers' Institutes; Sheep on the Farm; "Alkali": Its Cause, Composition and Cure; Fungous Diseases in the Orchard; Dry Farming; Grain : How to Handle and How to Market; Fruits for Cache Valley; The Science and Practice of Canning Fruit; The Preservation of our Forests; How I Select, Feed, and Manage a Dairy Herd; The Care and Feeding of Our Farm Animals From a Sanitary Standpoint; Experience in "Cowdom"; The Origin of the Beefing Animal; Heredity; Creamery-Fed Hogs; Raising Hogs on the Farm; When to Cut Lucern for Hay; Profitable Poultry Keeping; Common Sense of Dressmaking; What Shall We Read?; Soil Fertility; and Report of the Condition and Progress of the Dairy Industry for Utah for 1897-8.

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Second annual of the Utah State Farmers' Institutes, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1898. Annuals of Farmers Institute and Housekeepers Conference recorded the season's institute work, which contains leading papers and discussions presented at the institute meeting of the State. Freely distributed to farmers following each session. Topics include : Purpose and scope of the Farmers' Institutes; Sheep on the Farm; "Alkali": Its Cause, Composition and Cure; Fungous Diseases in the Orchard; Dry Farming; Grain : How to Handle and How to Market; Fruits for Cache Valley; The Science and Practice of Canning Fruit; The Preservation of our Forests; How I Select, Feed, and Manage a Dairy Herd; The Care and Feeding of Our Farm Animals From a Sanitary Standpoint; Experience in "Cowdom"; The Origin of the Beefing Animal; Heredity; Creamery-Fed Hogs; Raising Hogs on the Farm; When to Cut Lucern for Hay; Profitable Poultry Keeping; Common Sense of Dressmaking; What Shall We Read?; Soil Fertility; and Report of the Condition and Progress of the Dairy Industry for Utah for 1897-8.